On Thursday night I was in the kitchen around 10 p.m. and the window was open and I heard something rustling the leaves outside the window. I called Jason over who tried to see what it was. He told me to go outside to the front of the house to see if whatever it was would run down the side yard and he'd be able to see. I still can't believe I agreed to go. I gingerly crept outside and when I looked at the side of the house I saw a skunk just a few feet away from me. I ran back into the house and told Jason.
We decided we needed to do something about it. Friday at work during lunch hour Jason called around to several pest control places. Everyone was quite expensive and a few were currently out of traps as with the flooding animals were being displaced and many people were having problems with various critters. After some research Jason headed to Rona and bought a skunk trap.
Needless to say I was pretty nervous about making this a do it yourself project, but Jason seemed confident about it. He placed a can of tuna at the far end of the trap and put it out in the yard where we had seen the skunk. Sure enough by the next morning we had caught him. Now what to do!
Jason called his brother who has a truck to come and help him and he got himself ready to rid us of our unwanted guest.
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| Better safe than sorry! |
Carefully picking up the trap.
Now to load the trap into a box in the back of the truck.
Arriving at the skunk's new home!
Most stressful part - opening up the trap and then backing away.
I hope he enjoys his new home and doesn't find his way back to our house!
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